Later Pocahontas would be adopted with an interest in her racial
"otherness," but this time with a social, rather than
commercial, agenda. The Hampton Institute, one of the first African
American colleges in America, published a long poem in 1910 entitled
"Pocahontas", dedicated "To the Indian Girls of
Hampton Institute, on the 300th Anniversary of the Founding of
Jamestown, Virginia," indicating the incorporation of Native
Americans at that traditionally black college. Interestingly,
the speaker of the poem is Pocahontas herself. This is the first
example of an entire poem's voice being given over to Pocahontas.

Throughout, she sings of her difficulty in accepting the white
man's ways, yet she perseveres in her compassionate manner. The
work ends with the benediction, "Let the bond of the Nations
be Love!" A footnote to this last line then reminds readers
on this anniversary of the de facto founding of our nation that
Pocahontas was a peace-making bridge between the races. This poem
makes Pocahontas a spokesperson for reconciliation between black
and white, male and female.